And Yahweh said to Gideon, "There [are] still too many troops; bring them down to the water, and I will sift through them for you there. For whomever I say to you, 'This [one] will go with you,' he will go with you; and for all whom I say to you, 'This [one] will not go with you,' he will not go."

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

and his breath as an overflowing torrent, which reacheth even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to put a bridle into the jaws of the peoples, that causeth them to go astray.

“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to My dear people. It comes not to winnow or to sift;

And I will send aliens to Babylon who will sift her and will empty her land. For in the day of trouble they shall be against her all around.

For lo, this I promise: though I sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as they use to sift in a sieve: yet shall not the smallest gravel stone fall upon the earth.

Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat:

Let a man then sift and approve himself, and accordingly let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.